Miss Saigon rather surprisingly turns out to be a tour de force for its star, Jonathan Pryce. In the midst of Boubil and Schönberg's "girl-meets-boy-with confused-emotions-in-Vietnam" rewrite of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Pryce's Engineer's bright tenor provides a nasty yet humanely pragmatical focal point for more logically tuned minds. Daring to tackle the controversial ...

Manufacturer: Geffen

Manufacturer: Sony Bmg
Starring: Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, June Thorburn, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers
Directed By: George Pal

Manufacturer: Ghostlight

Manufacturer: Jay

Manufacturer: Angel
Starring: Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Gregg Baker (II), Cynthia Clarey, Marietta Simpson
Directed By: Trevor Nunn

The delightful pairing of Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters headlines the 1974 cast of Mack and Mabel. Despite a distinguished pedigree of composer-lyricist Jerry Herman, director Gower Champion, and producer David Merrick, the show ran only 66 performances on Broadway due to an unwieldy and tragic plot about the doomed romance of silent-movie maven Mack Sennett, creator of the Keystone ...

Manufacturer: Universal / Island

Manufacturer: EMI Classics

Manufacturer: Commercial Marketing

For better or worse, Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation of Gaston Leroux's gothic horror/romance novel has done for stage musicals what Spielberg's Jaws did for fish stories, with worldwide sales of its original cast album approaching 25 million. While director Joel Schumacher's film turns on his typically ambitious visual verve, its new film soundtrack recording has been paradoxically ...

Manufacturer: Sony Classical